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Dec 20 2021

Year-Over-Year Charts, December 17

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another look at year-over-year experience with the epidemic.
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Dec 20 2021

Age Series Charts, December 16

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Updated look at epidemic trends by age group.
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Dec 20 2021

Case Rates Over Time

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Looking at case rates for hosps and deaths over time by age group might tell us something, but not clear what it is.
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Dec 20 2021

The Vaccines Aren’t Stopping Transmission

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A simplified chart of vax levels versus case levels shows that the vax is not sufficient to suppress "cases".
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Dec 19 2021

How About Some Health Care for a Changeup?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
A couple of health care related research summaries.
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Dec 18 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 71

By Kevin Roche Commentary 12 Comments
Almost caught up on the research, such as it is.
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Dec 17 2021

Two Quick Hits

By Kevin Roche Commentary 18 Comments
Pro sports' CV-19 problems are emblematic of the nation's and a woke left periodical discovers how bad CDC research on masks is.
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Dec 16 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 70

By Kevin Roche Commentary 8 Comments
Oh joy, two sets of summaries in one day.
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Dec 16 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 69

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
The usual vaccine-heavy round of research summaries.
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Dec 16 2021

An Interesting Political Event

By Kevin Roche Commentary 13 Comments
Not sure how good an idea it is to get a close up look at the political process.
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Dec 15 2021

Let’s Party, Part 2

By Kevin Roche Commentary 9 Comments
Due to overwhelming demand, the party will go forward, date and location to be announced.
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Dec 15 2021

Let’s Party

By Kevin Roche Commentary 20 Comments
We have to get past this epidemic and find a way to celebrate that.
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Dec 15 2021

Deaths in Children

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Most of the very few deaths in children attributed to CV-19 aren't actually due to the virus and the children have significant other illnesses.
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Dec 15 2021

Masks Work, for the 2000th Time

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Yet more evidence on just how much difference masks make, or should I say don't make.
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Dec 14 2021

Breakthrough Event Proportions, December 13

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
Ten thousand new cases in the fully vaxed reported this past week. Yep, epidemic of the unvaxed.
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Kevin RocheThe Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.

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This is an outstanding report on total global drug spending and trends, with projections out to 2025.  It helps you understand this important area of health care, which does much...
June 1, 2021
The Office of the Actuary annual report on national health spending, covering 2018.
December 7, 2019
2019 Kaiser Family Foundation Employer Health Benefits Report
October 1, 2019
MedPAC 2019 Report to Congress
June 18, 2019

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Press Ganey, which provides market research for health plans and providers , is being purchased by health care survey firm Qualtrics for $6.75 billion.  Both companies claim this is all...
October 6, 2025
Another weirdly named company, Thyme Care, spices things up by raising a fresh $97 million in capital to support its cancer care managment business.
September 25, 2025
Sometimes companies change their name, I have no idea why and it often seems goofy.  CapitalRx, which is a pharmacy benefit manager, with aspirations to be a broader technology provider...
September 25, 2025
Innovacer, a health care technology company that claims extensive use of artificial intelligence, is acquiring Story Health, which helps manage patients with chronic care conditions and who need specialty care.
September 18, 2025

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